NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

78 %

137 %

75% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

173 FPS

318 FPS

146 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

107 FPS

166 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

126 FPS

238 FPS

112 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

81 FPS

132 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11562

19854

71% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2464.13

6005.83

143% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

126130

238123

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

114956

204921

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93540

138859

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

120016

195588

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

108169

172195

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1650 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1815 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

1695 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

24 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

495.9 GB/s

936.2 GB/s

88% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

40% slightly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

116.2 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

63% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

348.5 Gigatexels/s

556 Gigatexels/s

59% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.15 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

219% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

10496

241% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

328

70% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

22nd of 363

10th of 363

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

July 2019

September 2020

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 3090 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3090 over the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER.